Guest Commentary: The future of human consciousness will be a hybrid affair. We will live and work in a ubiquitous computing environment, where physical reality and a...
After a thrilling Western Conference Finals bout that saw the Golden State Warriors storm back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Seattle Supersonics Oklahoma City Thunder, basketball fans are gearing up for what should be an epic NBA Finals.
The Warriors will host the Cavaliers this Thursday,...
In a move to get users to share more links and photos, Twitter may be dropping URLs from the character count, meaning they won’t cut into a tweet’s 140 character limit.
The change, leaked to Bloomberg but unconfirmed by Twitter as of yet, could show up...
Current genome-editing technologies introduce double-stranded (ds) DNA breaks at a target locus as the first step to gene correction. Although most genetic diseases arise from point mutations, current approaches to point mutation correction are inefficient and typically induce an abundance of random insertions and deletions (indels) at the target locus resulting from the cellular response to dsDNA breaks. Here we report the development of ‘base...
A protein in the pathogenic bacterium Legionella pneumophila has been found to attach the modifying molecule ubiquitin to human proteins, using a mechanism that, surprisingly, does not involve cellular E1 and E2 enzymes.
Nature doi: 10.1038/nature17888
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Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think.
A common refrain we hear in the comments section of Ars Cardboard stories is, “Man, these games...
